The clerk logged the information, and noted that, for that kind of money, it would probably be only a few minutes before the phone rang.īut more than two weeks after Stuart's discovery, police report that no one has come forward. But nobody was."ĭetermined that the right thing to do was to return the money, Stuart called the appropriate police precinct. "Y'know, was I really awake? Then I looked around to see if any of the people on the sidewalk was patting his pocket, as if they'd just lost something. "I did one of these," he replied, tweaking himself. Stuart brought his thumb and forefinger to his cheek. I was riding my bike about two feet away from the edge of the parked cars the way I always do. It was 15th Street, between H and I, between 2 and 3 in the afternoon. "It was five $100 bills, folded, then folded again. "The money was just lying there in the middle of 15th Street?" You'd have to be six feet under not to be. Financial ignoramus though I am, I was intrigued. But not all of us have found big bucks like Stuart. Many of us have found a quarter here or a dollar bill there. I always like to say that I got into the newspaper business because I knew nothing about money-and my salary in the years since has done nothing to change that.īut this is a human problem, not a financial one.
He has gotten so much differing and conflicting advice that he doesn't know what to do. He has asked the people he meets in the course of his job as a bicycle courier for advice.
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Should they give it to charity? Donate it to a political cause? Blow it on a color TV set or a weekend in Atlantic City? Put it aside so they can buy a house someday? In fact, according to Goldberg, the $500 he found in the middle of 15th Street on May 7 has become a burning, almost burdensome, issue to his wife and him.
There it sits, out of sight, but hardly out of mind. So he has deposited the money in a savings account. "I don't want to do something with it and look back and say, 'That was foolish,' " Stuart says. For now, Stuart Goldberg of Riverdale has decided not to decide.
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